Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered by such major U.S. naval bases as Pearl Harbor, Guam and Midway...
Sixty miles southeast of Guam, the Navy's bathyscaphe Trieste (TIME, Sept. 1, 1958) settled slowly below the rolling .sea. In the small, thick-shelled crew compartment were Lieut. Donald Walsh and Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard (son of the bathyscaphe's inventor, Auguste Piccard). At 24,000 ft. (more than 4½ miles) below the surface, the Trieste touched the greatest depth ever reached...
...Guam and is believed to include the deepest place in the earth's oceans, about 37,000 ft. below the surface. To cruise into this fearful place, seven miles below the sunlight, where the pressure reaches 16,000 Ibs. per square inch, is no mere stunt. No submarine today can cruise at bathyscaphe depths, but it may be desirable some time to build one that can. Long before that time comes, the Navy intends to be skilled in bathynavigation...